MRI was no big deal, if I hadn't been in such extreme pain I would probably have fallen asleep. Tig, only positive thoughts, please. If you want to have an out-of-body experience while they're surgerizing you, feel free to take over my mind for a while. I don't use it much anyhow.

You'll be fine. Anything less and I'll have to smack the doctor around, and he doesn't want that. :fsm_punching_bag:

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

Scott the Pirate wrote:You know what scares the sh*t out of me? That big-ass, noisy MRI. Sitting in a tube that's only a bit bigger than the width of my shoulders with thoughts like "tumor" and "clot" and "stroke" running through my head. Not a good time.

Oooh, toys Is it bad that I immediately wondered what injury I'd need an MRI for? Not that I'd want to go near one now anyway given the metal content of my leg.

Tigger_the_Wing wrote:As for pain meds, I'm in constant pain anyway as I'm not allowed the stuff that I can tolerate and I'm unable to tolerate any stuff which I'm allowed.

I was given morphine before; it basically failed to remove my pain but removed my ability to complain about it. Nice for the nurses, I suppose, but not so good for me!

That's very odd, why aren't you allowed any of the fun stuff?

Also, I've never heard of sufficient morphine failing to remove pain Were you administering it yourself or was it a doctor and syringe job?

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything - Friedrich Nietzsche

The great thing about Beaker is his ability to provoke while still being decorous, or at least within acceptable rules of conduct - Qwertyuiopasd

ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:MRI was no big deal, if I hadn't been in such extreme pain I would probably have fallen asleep./quote]

It wasn't the machine as much as it was being trapped and incredibly anxious at the same time. I'd gotten so dizzy at school that i had to get campus security to help me to health services.

I've been in a cave that was way more confining, a part called the "gun barrel". 45 or so feet long, about half the space that the MRI machine had. Had to pick which arm to lead with, because you couldn't change arms until you came out the other end. Best not drop the flashlight.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:I've been in a cave that was way more confining, a part called the "gun barrel". 45 or so feet long, about half the space that the MRI machine had. Had to pick which arm to lead with, because you couldn't change arms until you came out the other end. Best not drop the flashlight.

Roy Hunter wrote:Then, when you've got to know them a bit and their defences are down, you go all Scott the Pirate on them...

ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:I've been in a cave that was way more confining, a part called the "gun barrel". 45 or so feet long, about half the space that the MRI machine had. Had to pick which arm to lead with, because you couldn't change arms until you came out the other end. Best not drop the flashlight.

No thanks. I'll walk up ten flights rather than take the elevator. I tried to watch the movie 'The Descent' but felt nauseous even before the scarily claustrophobic bits.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:I've been in a cave that was way more confining, a part called the "gun barrel". 45 or so feet long, about half the space that the MRI machine had. Had to pick which arm to lead with, because you couldn't change arms until you came out the other end. Best not drop the flashlight.

I was in a cave like that once, when I was 10 or 11. It had this very, very narrow part you could squeeze through to get to a small room in the cave. Went with my boy scout troop; pretty much every one of them on the way to the cave were talking about how they were going to go through the narrow bit, but in the end all of them chickened out, except one other kid and me. It was so narrow that, with a helmet on, my chin was pressed into the mud the whole way through.

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

I had an MRI once. They told me that the dye they would inject me with might give me a "warm sensation". I only felt the warm sensation in my groin area. For the whole MRI process I was convinced that I had pissed myself.

I think Agnostic/Atheist would probably be better for the vast majority of us. I think some recent polls have shown and explosion in self-proclaimed agnostics or atheists, so it might be smart to bolster that. While it would be fun to answer Pastafarian, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, et cetera, (which are basically the same as Agnostic/Atheist), you can be sure the nobody's going to add Agnostic/Atheist with Pastafarian to get accurate numbers of actual Agnostic/Atheists. Unless we manage to do some big publicity stunts.

Helios Ra wrote:I think Agnostic/Atheist would probably be better for the vast majority of us. I think some recent polls have shown and explosion in self-proclaimed agnostics or atheists, so it might be smart to bolster that. While it would be fun to answer Pastafarian, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, et cetera, (which are basically the same as Agnostic/Atheist), you can be sure the nobody's going to add Agnostic/Atheist with Pastafarian to get accurate numbers of actual Agnostic/Atheists. Unless we manage to do some big publicity stunts.

Speak for yourself! I have decided to put Pastafarian, or CoFSM on all forms - but I am neither agnostic nor atheist, so why would I put that instead?